Robots design?

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Originally Posted by excel2474

I think you could still use a softball pitcher design, but yeah I think you are right about accuracy. But like Dean said, there will be some luck involved. I think that as long as you shoot enough balls in the general vicinity of your target, then luck might be on your side.

Luck is going to be a big factor this year, with the slipperiness of the ball and its poor durability any shooter is going to shoot every ball with a different velocity. Although if a team finds out how to successfully shoot a ball with accuracy, then they have made one heck of a bot.

[Akash Rastogi]

We predict to see many resurrections of 06 bots + 02 bots. And a little hint of 05 thrown in there.

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

We predict to see many resurrections of 06 bots + 02 bots. And a little hint of 05 thrown in there.

people are forgetting about using the same strategy that some teams used in 2004

a: get the balls
b: dump them off to the HP
c: let the HP do his/her job and shoot em in

seems similar to 04 doesn't it?

(06 was pretty much the same thing, i could see a catapult system or a softball pitcher type shooter coming into play). What people don't realize is this, in 06 you were shooting at a still target, some teams could move in any direction and still score because of their cams and programming, but this year, thats a whole lot harder, because these targets are moving as well, that doesn't sound as hard as it is, but think about it this way

it takes a ball say .5 seconds to get ot the goal. because the goal is not fixed, the goal can move an ANY direction between that period, you will need to shoot and program accordingly... THIS is where luck comes into play,

(well, maybe not luck, but more of a mental game.)

[Zach Purser]

We're not going to be able the reuse our flywheel design from the Aim High bot. That thing would rip these balls to shreds, and I can't imagine how hard it would be to turn on this floor once the flywheel was up to speed.

[hillale]

I see a lot of different parts of old designs, especially 2006 (i've only been here since 05) coming together to be a formidable bot.